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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1871" title="1871">1871</a> – <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida" title="Aida">Aida</a></b></i>, one of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>'s most popular operas, made its debut in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, Egypt.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a> – Seventy-three people were <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster" title="Italian Hall disaster">crushed to death</a></b> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampede" title="Stampede">stampede</a> after someone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater" title="Shouting fire in a crowded theater">falsely yelled "fire"</a> at a crowded Christmas party in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet,_Michigan" title="Calumet, Michigan">Calumet, Michigan</a>, U.S.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – Forces united in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes</a> defeated Hungarian forces to end the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_occupation_of_Me%C4%91imurje" title="1918 occupation of Međimurje">occupation of Međimurje</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953" title="1953">1953</a> – A railway bridge at Tangiwai on New Zealand's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">North Island</a> was damaged by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahar" title="Lahar">lahar</a> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster" title="Tangiwai disaster">collapsed beneath a passenger train</a></b>, killing 151 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army" title="Lord's Resistance Army">Lord's Resistance Army</a>, a Ugandan rebel group, began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Christmas_massacres" title="2008 Christmas massacres">attacks on several villages</a></b> in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing hundreds and committing numerous atrocities.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslama_ibn_Abd_al-Malik" title="Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik">Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 738); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz" title="Adam Mickiewicz">Adam Mickiewicz</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1798); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci" title="Anthony Fauci">Anthony Fauci</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1940); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernilla_Wahlgren" title="Pernilla Wahlgren">Pernilla Wahlgren</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1967)</p>
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